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Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment


Rose-tinted predictions for artificial intelligence’s grand achievements will be swept aside by underwhelming performance and dangerous results.

In the decades to come, 2023 may be remembered as the year of generative AI hype, where ChatGPT became arguably the fastest-spreading new technology in human history and expectations of AI-powered riches became commonplace. Hopes of a quick fix to the hallucination problem via supervised learning, where these models are taught to stay away from questionable sources or statements, will prove optimistic at best. Generative AI will have been adopted by many companies, but it will prove to be just “ so-so automation ” of the type that displaces workers but fails to deliver huge productivity improvements.

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